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Layla Bouzoubaa

Public Health - data science, visualization, engineering

Education

University of Miami Miller School of Medicine

M.S. Public Health cn. Biostatistics

Miami, FL

2015–2016

Georgia Institute of Technology

B.S. Industrial & Systems Engineering

Atlanta, GA

2009–2014

Professional Experience

Lead Research Analyst

University of Miami Miller School of Medicine

Miami, FL

2019–present

  • HEALing Communities Study Analyst - address opioid misuse use disorder (OUD)
  • Build Shiny App to visualize community characters and map of naloxone facilities
  • Design and disseminate statistical reports and visualizations by community with R and R Markdown
  • Process population data for NY communities using the US Census Bureau via API
  • Create maps from shapefiles (tigris) and overlay various population health risk factors
  • CTN0094 Analyst- Predict response to OUD treatments
  • Spell Checker Shiny App to harmonize and standardize drug names
  • SCAN360.com Project Manager
  • University of Miami COVID-19 Contact Tracking and Tracing Committee Principal Analyst
  • Observing COVID-19 policy adoption in collaboration with the University of Miami Institute for Advanced Study of the Americas, led by Dr. Felicia Knaul, and Universidad Anáhuac in Mexico

Biostatistician Programmer

University of Miami Miller School of Medicine - Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center

Miami, FL

2017–2019

  • Acquire & process population data from various sources
  • Calculate various measures of cancer burden including age-adjusted incidence, mortality, survival rates
  • Prototype new data sources via Shiny App and R package development

Epidemiology Researcher

Université Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah Faculté de Médecine et de Pharmacie

Fes, Morocco

2014–2015

  • Statistical consulting
  • Literature reviews for a multitude of research initiatives

Content Developer

Great Parents Academy

Atlanta, GA

2013–2014

  • Develop digital lessons that were integrated into the educational supplemental software - XML

Certifications

Google Analytics

Google Academy

N/A

2020

Associate Cloud Engineer

Google Cloud

N/A

2019

Applied Statistics

Pennsylvania State University

N/A

2017

Software

DOPE

Drug Ontology Parsing Engine.
https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/DOPE/index.html

N/A

2020

tidyREDCap

tidyREDCap is an R package with functions for processing REDCap data
https://cloud.r-project.org/web/packages/tidyREDCap/index.html

N/A

2020

Selected Teaching Experience

Data Science & Machine Learning for Health Research

University of Miami Department of Public Health Sciences

Miami, FL

2019–

  • Developed curriculum to a Biostatistics course to teach computational data science methods to graduate students in a modular format that follows the basic components of a data pipeline. Primary topics taught: version control with git and GitHub, building Shiny applications - theory and applied, building interactive visualizations, working with geospatial data.

Invited Lectures & Presentations

DOPE: A Package for the R Language to Process/Classify Drug Names

Virtual Poster/Q&A - CPDD Conference

Online

June 2021

Raymond Balise, Gabriel Odom, L Bouzoubaa, Sean Luo, Daniel Feaster

Introduction to Public Health Data Science with the R Programming Language

Workshop given to the attendees of the NSF Re-enter STEM Through Emerging Technology (RESET)

Online

March 2021

L Bouzoubaa

Introduction to R Markdown

Workshop to R-Ladies community on how to create a prepare R Markdown files within RStudio for presentations and publication ready text, output & visualizations

Miami, FL

March 2020

L Bouzoubaa

Tearing Down Barriers to Publication with R Markdown

Seminar presented to Florida International University graduated students on how to use R for publications, dissertations, blogs using packages such as rmarkdown, knitr, bookdown, pagedown, xariangan

Miami, FL

Feb 2020

L Bouzoubaa, R Balise

Guest Lecturer and Computing Lab Instructor

University of Miami Department of Public Health Sciences - Medical Biostatistics Topics: methods in experimental and non-experimental epidemiological studies

Miami, FL

Aug 2016–Dec 2016

L Bouzoubaa, A Gauri

Selected Publications

Gender disparities in lung cancer survival from an enriched Florida population-based cancer registry

Annals of Medicine and Surgery. doi:10.1016/j.amsu.2020.11.081

N/A

2020

A Elkbuli, MM Byrne, W Zhao, M Sutherland, M McKenney, Y Godinez, DJ Dave, L Bouzoubaa, T Koru-Sengul

SCAN360: A Resource for a 360-Degree View of Cancer Prevention, Risk, and Survival

Preventing Chronic Disease (2020). doi:10.5888/pcd17.200263

N/A

2020

Z Bailey, R Balise, L Bouzoubaa, E Kobetz

Emergent high fatality lung disease in systemic juvenile arthritis

Annals of the rheumatic diseases (2019). doi:10.1136/annrheumdis-2019-216040

N/A

2019

Saper, V, G Chen, G Deutsch, R Guillerman, J Birgmeier, K Jagadeesh, S Canna, G Schulert, R Deterding, J Xu, AN Leung, L Bouzoubaa, …,P Khatri, ED Mellins

Risk of Cancer Death Among White, Black, and Hispanic Populations in South Florida

Prev Chronic Dis (2019). doi:10.5888/pcd16.180529

N/A

2019

P Pinheiro, K Callahan, T Koru-Sengul, J Ransdell, L Bouzoubaa, CP Brown, E Kobetz

The Impact of Immediate Salvage Surgery on Corporeal Length Preservation in Patients Presenting with Penile Implant Infections

J. Urol. (2018). doi:10.1016/j.juro.2018.01.082

N/A

2018

D Lopategui, R Balise, L Bouzoubaa, S Wilson, and B Kava

Cervical cancer sociodemographic and diagnostic disparities in Florida: a population-based study (1981–2013) by stage at presentation

Ethnicity & Health (2018). doi:10.1080/13557858.2018.1471669

N/A

2018

A Gauri, SE Messiah, L Bouzoubaa, KJ Moore, T Koru-Sengul

Professional Development

Tidy Modeling with R Bookclub

N/A

Online

March 2021

Advanced R Bookclub

N/A

Online

March 2021

Tidy Text Mining Workshop

Part of rstudio::conf. This workshop taught how to manipulate, summarize, and visualize the characteristics of text using tidy data principle and R packages from the tidy tool ecosystem.

San Francisco, CA

Jan 2020

Tidyverse Development Day

Part of rstudio::conf. It is a full day dedicated to contribute to Tidyverse packages.

San Francisco, CA

Jan 2020

Boat Lecture

N/A

Miami, FL

Jan 2020

Community Engagement

Social Justics in Data Science Bookclub

Organizer

Online

Jan 2021-

GitHub Campus

Advisor

Online

Jan 2020-

Google #IamRemarkable

Facilitator

Various

April 2019-

Google WomenTechMakers

Ambassador

Various

Feb 2019-

R-Ladies Miami

Organizer

Miami, FL

Jan 2019-

Google Developer Groups Miami

Organizer

Miami, FL

Jan 2019-